

Octob Standardizing & Digitizing: Essential Work for Business Schools in Unprecedented Times

This webinar will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
How can business schools uphold high accreditation and academic compliance standards, and ensure efficient faculty annual review and P&T practices – all without overwhelming their faculty and staff? With the ongoing need to capture and validate faculty activities and scholarly work, implementing new processes or workflows can seem more daunting than ever.
Join us for an inside look at how the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce navigated its five-year digital transformation journey, moving from paper binders to a fully digital and integrated system. Hear firsthand how they streamlined accreditation reporting, retained valuable appraisal processes while creating efficiencies, and drove the adoption of new resource request processes across their unit.
Learning Objectives
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Proactive strategies for digital transformation and lessons learned from real-world implementation
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Methods to streamline cross-functional processes
- Approaches to driving adoption and integration of new faculty-focused data systems
Learn from UVA’s experiences and walk away with actionable insights to help your business school proactively manage accreditation, academic compliance, and digital transformation, no matter where you are in your journey.
Speakers
Chris Elliott, University of Virginia
Dr. Chris Elliott is the Assistant Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce where he manages a portfolio of Faculty Success activities and serves as a primary manager for the School’s AACSB accreditation. Dr. Elliott and the McIntire School of Commerce just completed their AACSB Continuous Improvement Review (CIR) in 2023-2024.
Will Sickenberger, Elsevier
Will Sickenberger is a Senior Solutions Engineer with the Elsevier Academic Information Systems team. For the past 7 years he has specifically been working with universities evaluating and using the Interfolio Faculty Information System to improve processes related to faculty hiring, promotion and tenure, and reporting and showcasing faculty activity data.
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